Lucia Perillo
{{short description|American poet}}
Lucia Maria Perillo (September 30, 1958 – October 16, 2016) was an American poet.{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/poet-novelist-lucia-perillo-dies-58-033029738.html|title=Poet and novelist Lucia Perillo dies at 58|work=yahoo.com|access-date=24 October 2016}}
In 2000, Perillo was recognized with a "genius grant" as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program.Langer, Emily. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/lucia-perillo-poet-who-unflinchingly-dissected-mortality-dies-at-58/2016/10/25/59955db8-9ac3-11e6-9980-50913d68eacb_story.html "Lucia Perillo, poet who unflinchingly dissected mortality, dies at 58"], The Washington Post, October 25, 2016. Accessed October 27, 2016. "A decade into her career, and after the publication of two more poetry volumes, she received a 2000 MacArthur fellowship, commonly known as a 'genius grant.'"
Life and career
Perillo was born in Manhattan on September 30, 1958{{cite book|author=Mark Doty|title=The Best American Poetry 2012: Series Editor David Lehman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiD66AN10mkC&q=Lucia+Perillo+1958&pg=PA192|date=18 September 2012|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-8154-6|page=192}} and grew up in Irvington.Gates, Anita. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/books/lucia-perillo-dead.html "Lucia Perillo, Whose Illness Shaped Her Poetry, Dies at 58"], The New York Times, October 25, 2016. Accessed October 26, 2016. "Lucia Maria Perillo was born on Sept. 30, 1958, in Manhattan and grew up in suburban Irvington, N.Y."
Her work appeared in The New Yorker,{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/search|title=New Yorker Search|work=newyorker.com|access-date=24 October 2016}} The Atlantic and The Kenyon Review,{{cite web|url=http://www.kenyonreview.org/?s=lucia%20perillo|title=Search for "lucia perillo" - The Kenyon Review|work=kenyonreview.org|access-date=24 October 2016}} among other magazines. A traditional poet of mostly free-verse personal reflection, she wrote extensively about living with multiple sclerosis in her poems and essays.{{cite book|last=Perillo|first=Lucia|title=I've Heard the Vultures Singing|year=2007|publisher=Trinity University|location=San Antonio|isbn=978-1-59534-031-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/iveheardvultures0000peri}} Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones was her last book of poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her 2012 collection of short fiction, Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain, was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She died on October 16, 2016, in Olympia, Washington, aged 58.{{Cite web |url=http://www.artesianews.com/1375337/poet-and-novelist-lucia-perillo-dies-at-58.html |title=Poet and novelist Lucia Perillo dies at 58 | |access-date=2016-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024214030/http://www.artesianews.com/1375337/poet-and-novelist-lucia-perillo-dies-at-58.html |archive-date=2016-10-24 |url-status=dead }}
Awards
- 1989 Samuel French Morse Award, Northeastern University Press
- 1990 Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America for Dangerous Life
- 1991 PEN/Revson Award, Pen American Center, NY
- Purdue University's Emery Poetry Prize
- 1993 Illinois Arts Council Award for Creative Non-Fiction
- 1994 Finalist, National Poetry Series
- 1995 Verna Emery Poetry Prize, Purdue University Press
- 1995 Iowa Poetry Prize
- 1997 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- 1997 Balcones Prize, Austin Community College for The Body Mutinies
- 1998 Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, The Beloit Poetry Journal
- 1998 Pushcart Prize for "Bad Boy Number Seventeen"
- 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program award[https://www.macfound.org/fellows/645/ Meet the Class of 2000: Lucia M. Perillo], MacArthur Fellows Program. Accessed October 27, 2016. "Lucia Perillo is a young poet whose signature voice is marked by an urban speed and a narrative style driven by characterization and drama."
- 2003 Pushcart Prize for "Shrike Tree"
- 2005 Pushcart Prize for "In the Confessional Mode"
- 2006 Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- 2010 Washington State Book Award for Inseminating the Elephant[https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/inseminating-the-elephant-by-lucia-perillo/ Copper Canyon Press]
- 2010 Bobbit Prize, Library of Congress for Inseminating the Elephant
- 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry finalist for Inseminating the Elephant
- 2012 WA State Governor's Arts Medal
- 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award finalist for Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain
- 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist for Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain
- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Poetry for On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths{{cite web |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/national-book-critics-circle-names-2012-award-finalists/ |title=National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists |work=The New York Times |author=John Williams |date=January 14, 2012 |access-date=January 15, 2013}}
- 2013 Shelley Memorial Award
- 2013 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths[http://nwbooklovers.org/2013/01/07/2013-pacific-northwest-book-awards-announced/ "2013 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Announced"], NW Book Loves, January 7, 2013. Accessed October 27, 2016. "The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, the indie bookstore booster behind this blog, announced the winners of their annual book awards today. Congratulations are in order for... Lucia Perillo (Olympia, WA) for On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths"
Bibliography
{{Incomplete list|date=June 2019}}
=Poetry=
;Collections
- {{cite book |title=Dangerous life |publisher=Northeastern University Press |year=1989 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Body Mutinies | year=1996| publisher=Purdue University Press| isbn=978-1-55753-083-7 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Oldest Map with the Name America: New and Selected Poems | publisher=Random House| year=1999| isbn=978-0-375-50160-9 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1N_kaA3NDMkC| title=Luck is luck: poems| publisher=Random House, Inc.| year=2005| isbn=9781400063239}}
- {{cite book| title=Inseminating the Elephant| publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year=2009| isbn=978-1-55659-291-1 }}
- {{cite book| title=On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths| publisher=Copper Canyon Press| year=2012| isbn=978-1-55659-397-0 }}
- Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones. Copper Canyon Press. 2016. {{ISBN|978-1-55659-473-1}}
;List of poems
| class='wikitable sortable' width='90%' |
| width=25%|Title
!|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |
|---|
| Blacktail
|2014 |{{cite journal |date=August 25, 2014 |title=Blacktail |journal=The New Yorker |volume=90 |issue=24 |pages=33 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/blacktail }} | |
| The News (A Manifesto)
|1986 |"The News (A Manifesto)"{{Cite web |title=The News (A Manifesto) {{!}} Ploughshares |url=https://www.pshares.org/issues/winter-1986/news-manifesto |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.pshares.org}} Ploughshares Issue 41 Winter 1986 |Dangerous Life (1989), Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones (2016){{Cite book |author=Perillo, Lucia |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/959037464 |title=Time will clean the carcass bones : selected and new poems |date=18 April 2017 |publisher=Copper Canyon Press |isbn=978-1-55659-502-8 |oclc=959037464}} |
| First Job/Seventeen
|1986 |"First Job/Seventeen" Ploughshares Vol 12, No. 4 1986 |Dangerous Life (1989), Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones (2016) |
| Dangerous Life
|1989 |"Dangerous Life" Dangerous Life 1989{{cite book |last1=Perillo |first1=Lucia |title=Dangerous Life |date=1989}} |
| The Revelation
|1989 |
=Non-fiction=
- {{cite book| title=I've Heard the Vultures Singing| publisher=Trinity University Press| year=2007| isbn=978-1-59534-031-3| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/iveheardvultures0000peri}}
=Fiction=
- {{cite book| title=Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| year=2012| isbn=9780393083538| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/happinessischemi0000peri}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.poetry.la/page269.html Poetry.LA's video of Lucia Perillo's reading at Boston Court Performing Arts Center, Pasadena CA, 3/08/2010]
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Category:American writers of Italian descent
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Category:Writers from Olympia, Washington